G'day Gamers,

Now I should be in a good gaming mood. This week one of my most anticipated games in 007 First Light finally released, I get news that I'll be reuniting with my homie Lanky Kong on Switch 2, heck I've even seen some news encouraging a Banjo Kazooie comeback.

But all I can think about is the beatings I've copped in Forza this week at the hands of that AI bastard BowieKnife99, man is really on demon time in these races. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, check out the ICYMI section.

Anyways that’s enough yapping.

Let's get into it,

This week delivered two of the year's biggest launches inside 48 hours, and the smaller one walked away with the bigger prize.

007 First Light was the marquee name. IO Interactive's first game outside Hitman in over a decade landed May 27 on PS5, Xbox and PC, the first proper James Bond game since 007 Legends in 2012, the release that shut down its own studio. Reviews settled at 88 on Metacritic, the best-reviewed Bond game since GoldenEye 007 in 1997. Patrick Gibson plays a 26-year-old Bond across a 14-hour origin story that runs through his MI6 recruitment and first 00 mission.

A lot of places are calling it the best Bond game of all time, which makes sense because there haven’t exactly been heaps of great Bond games over the years, but GoldenEye still has a special place in my heart.

Then on May 29 came Mina the Hollower, and it’s already taken the title that Forza Horizon 6 only managed to hold onto for about two weeks.

Yacht Club Games’ first title outside the Shovel Knight universe launched at $19.99 USD and immediately became the highest-rated game of 2026, sitting at 93 on Metacritic and 94 on OpenCritic with a 98 percent recommendation rate, ahead of Forza’s 91.

IGN, TheGamer and GameGrin all handed it a 10, so now I’m gonna need the internet to not be flogs and try to cancel the game just because IGN gave it a perfect score.

It’s a top-down action-adventure that pulls from Zelda, Castlevania and FromSoftware influences, set in a Victorian gothic world where you whip enemies, burrow underground to dodge attacks, and take on more than 25 bosses.

I’ve seen people describe it as Bloodborne with a Game Boy Advance art style, which sounds awesome.

Banjo-Kazooie has topped Xbox's Player Voice feedback as the most-requested game franchise Now if I had one wish as a gamer it would be for this franchise to get a revival. We need more bear & bird.

A blockbuster reveal is rumoured for next week's State of Play Does a new Cory Barlog game count as generation-defining? A first glimpse at the PS6?

Persona 6's protagonist and release window have leaked Concept art out of Xiaohongshu points to a blonde, bowl-cut lead and a September 2027 target, with reliable leaker Lolilolailo vouching for it.

Donkey Kong 64 is finally hitting Switch Online Rare's 1999 collectathon lands in the N64 app on June 4, ending a five-year wait since the service launched.

Forza Horizon 6 has its own online villain A Drivatar called BowieKnife99 has spent launch week ramming players off the road. As I said before, FUCK BowieKnife.

The Rayman Legends remake has leaked as 'Retold' Insider Gaming pegs the Ubisoft Montpellier project, codenamed Steambot, for an October 1 launch and a reveal inside a week.

Astro Bot got a mystery patch days before State of Play Team Asobi shipped a 400MB update with no notes, its first in 11 months. Coincidence?

The Witcher 3 is getting new DLC in 2027 Songs of the Past brings Geralt back 11 years on, co-developed by Fool's Theory of the Witcher 1 remake.

Media Molecule's next game looks open-world A designer's resume points to "open-world content" and "forage design," the LittleBigPlanet studio's first since Dreams.

Rocket League will be the first Unreal Engine 6 game Epic and Psyonix dropped the news at the RLCS Paris Major, skipping UE5 entirely after a decade on UE3.

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Crashout Crew (PC/Xbox) – May 28 A four-player co-op game from Aggro Crab where you run a warehouse on forklifts, racing to fill orders before the chaos of meteors, fires and your own crewmates sends everything sideways.

Mina the Hollower (Switch/Switch 2/PS4/PS5/Xbox/PC) – May 29 A top-down action-adventure from the Shovel Knight team, set in a cursed Victorian-gothic world. Whip enemies, burrow underground to dodge, and gear up through more than 25 bosses across a hand-drawn 8-bit world.

BrokenLore: FOLLOW (PS5/Xbox/PC) – June 1 A psychological first-person horror game following Anne through her childhood home, where surreal manifestations of her past close in and a doll guides her across seven chapters, all while an entity resembling her mother gives chase.

CALX (PC) – June 4 An atmospheric 3D action-adventure set on the Moebius-inspired planet Syro. Double jump, dash, levitate and grapple through a corrupted alien world built on Metroid and Hyper Light Drifter influences, running 10 to 15 hours. Consoles follow later in 2026.

The 7th Guest Remake (PC/PS5/Xbox) – June 4 A ground-up remake of the 1993 haunted-mansion puzzle mystery, with reimagined puzzles, rebuilt environments and newly recorded volumetric performances.

Gothic 1 Remake (PC/PS5/Xbox) – June 5 A full Unreal Engine 5 rebuild of the 2001 RPG, dropping you into a prison colony where mining factions run the world. Faction choices, harsh early-game survival, and a world that will flatten you for wandering into the wrong camp.